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Date: November 22, 2024 Fri
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2 results foundAuthor: Rhode Island Family Life Center Title: Court Debt and Related Incarceration in Rhode Island Summary: Every year, thousands of individuals sit in the Rhode Island jail not for crimes, but because they owe money to the state. Court debt is the most common reason that people are put in jail in Rhode Island--about 2,500 times a year. This incarceration is unnecessary and overly hasty, is an inefficient use of state finances, and disrupts peoples' lives. Rhode Island's system of court debt is considerably more punitive, more costly to defendants, and less accomodating to indigent individuals than other New England states. OpenDoors encourages policymakers to end the incarceration of the poor for inability to pay court fines. Details: Providence, RI: Rhode Island Family Life Center, 2008. 27p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 18, 2011 at: http://opendoorsri.org/sites/default/files/CourtDebt.pdf Year: 2008 Country: United States URL: http://opendoorsri.org/sites/default/files/CourtDebt.pdf Shelf Number: 121387 Keywords: Court DebtCourt Fines (Rhode Island)IndigentsPoverty |
Author: Hussemann, Jeanette Title: Negotiating Justice: Defendant Perspectives of Plea Bargaining In American Criminal Courts Summary: This dissertation research focuses on adult, indigent defendant perceptions of plea bargaining and justice in American criminal courts. Data for this research was collected over a two year period of time in Hennepin County, Minneapolis, MN. This research relies on over 600 hours of court observations during which period of time I followed over 250 cases and interviewed forty indigent, criminal defendants. This research specifically addresses how defendants interpret their court experiences as fair--including defendant's ability to be involved in the decisions of their case, treatment by public defenders, and attitudes towards the practice of plea bargaining and the court system as a whole. Despite claims that procedural fairness matters to defendant perceptions of court, and to the extent that perceptions of outcome fairness rely in part on experiences with procedural fairness, this research shows that defendants are not overly concerned about the procedures of their case. Defendants do not expect to be involved in plea procedures and case processing, and they do not anticipate receiving outstanding representation by a public defender. Defendant perceptions of court experiences are based largely on perceptions of distributive justice and case outcomes. Perhaps most importantly, defendant decision-making rests on a limited understanding of the procedures and decisions that are involved in the criminal courts. Broadly speaking, defendants support court procedures such as plea bargaining because they feel that the procedure allows them to quickly exit an uncontrollable and confusing situation while receiving the benefit of a more lenient sentence. Details: Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2013. 149p. Source: Internet Resource: Dissertation: Accessed November 29, 2017 at: https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/155864/Hussemann_umn_0130E_13764.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Year: 2013 Country: United States URL: https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/155864/Hussemann_umn_0130E_13764.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Shelf Number: 148584 Keywords: Criminal Courts Defendants Guilty Plea IndigentsPlea Bargaining Procedural Justice Public Defenders |